Regulating Transitions from School to Work : An Institutional Ethnography of Activation Work in Action
(eBook)

English

10.1515/9783839457061

Open Access https://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_abf2 unrestricted online access star

How are activation programs for the young unemployed implemented? How do grassroot-level bureaucrats deal with competing rationalities and demands for action? Transition policies increasingly aim at promoting self-regulation and constructing employable subjects. Stephan Dahmen explores the practical regulation of biographical transitions in activation programs for the young unemployed by focusing on the interactive accomplishment of activation work. The study reveals how the critical tensions of activation policies are continually re-interpreted and adapted to local contingencies and describes the various organisational technologies used for creating employable subjects.

funded by Universität Bielefeld

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In English.